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Tether-coins are cobwebs for the rich - heavy chains for the poor
by professor rat 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Or is that the laws? I get them mixed up. Peek behind the hood of the leading stablecoins—cryptocurrencies pegged to the price of another asset, most commonly the U.S. dollar—and things don’t look so stable at all. Take Tether: an opaque governance structure, a New York Attorney General lawsuit and undisclosed commercial paper holdings might give investors pause. Decentralized stablecoins try to avoid these governance issues by maintaining their pegs through algorithms instead of through vast reserves of cash and debt. . . ." https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-terra-algorithmic-stablecoin-protocol-…

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Joe Biden’s vision of US cryptospace
by professor rat 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Joe Biden’s vision of US cryptospace - a mechanical turkey You may quickly see how a gobbling electronic-dollar would always win guided, as it were, by a wizened dwarf called ’ In God we trust " theology that must always and everywhere be obfuscated.

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TV-GLOTZER (WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE) SONGTEXT
by Stefan Claas 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

https://vk.com/0x53746566616e TV-GLOTZER (WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE) SONGTEXT Einen recht schönen guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren Ich begrüße Sie recht herzlich zu unserem heutigen Fernsehprogramm Und wünsche Ihnen einen recht guten Empfang Allein! Die Welt hat mich vergessen Ich hänge rum! Hab's bei allen verschissen Ich sitz' zu Hause, keine Lust zu gar nichts Ich fühl' mich alt! Im Sumpf wie meine Omi: Ich schalt' die Glotze an Die Daltons, Waltons, everyone Ich glotz' von Ost nach West, zwei, fünf, vier Ich kann mich gar nicht entscheiden Ist alles so schön bunt hier! Ich glotz' TV (Sie glotzt TV) Ich glotz' TV (Sie glotzt TV) Wau! Ich bin so tot! War das nun schon mein Leben? Meine schöne Phantasie, meine Schaltstellen sind hinüber Regards Stefan -- claas.su

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'Crypto Is Helping' Ukraine
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

'Crypto Is Helping' Ukraine Amid Russia's Invasion, Says Deputy Minister Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alex Bornyakov today said that crypto has been "essential" in aiding the Ukrainian army. https://decrypt.co/94712/crypto-helping-ukraine-russia-invasion-deputy-mini… Pledge and you shall receive https://stiffs.com/celebrity/vladimirputin

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Ukraine the tactical-pivot - Moldova the strategic-pivot - Turkey the prize
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine rolls on, Turkey is caught between major powers – but could be crucial to ending the fighting https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/russia-invasion-ukraine-turkey-caugh… Reposts are not necessarily endorsements ( Unless you're Batshit-Crazy )

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From Non-NATO Ukraine to cryptoanarchist friendly space in central Asia
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised NATO and says he is no longer pressing for his country to join the military alliance. This clears the way for a crypto-anarchist line-of-march as by far the least-worst of limited options left for this brutalized polity. Ukrainians may then look back to the best of the Makhnovista experience and forward to APster assassination of all their state and religious enemies. E-estonia has only made a net-revolution half-way - someone has to go all the way first. Oh, and welcome to the Global Crypto-Anarchist Revolution!

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Crypto-cosmology as homomorphic netspace
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

The split-key-cosmology approach is similar to homomorphic crypto where you may process some information without full decryption. A promising line of attack involves close attention to energy inputs in the early universe. Calculating its Hamiltonian could help us establish whether cosmic inflation borrowed energy from ’ the bulk ’ ( primal vacuum ) This should be a fairly straight-forward application of Einstein’s famous equation. At least in theory.

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Deutsche Bank Has Lost 38 Percent of Its Market Value in a Month; That’s a Big Problem for Wall Street and the Fed
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/03/deutsche-bank-has-lost-38-percent-of… Deutsche Bank (symbol DB on the above chart) closed at $16.50 on the New York Stock Exchange on February 10 of this year. It closed at $10.23 yesterday – a decline of 38 percent in a month’s time. That’s a big problem because Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected to Wall Street banks via derivatives. According to Deutsche Bank’s most recent annual report, as of December 31, 2020, it held $35.4 *trillion* in notional derivatives. (Notional means face amount. See the table on page 147 of the 2020 Deutsche Bank Annual Report here <https://investor-relations.db.com/files/documents/annual-reports/Annual_Rep…> .)

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(No Subject)
by zeynepaydogan 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

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[old][ai] Open Source Alternative to Megatron-based Language Models Released February
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

The latest free language model from EleutherAI is 20B parameters large. It doesn't look like it is integrated into mainstream hubs like huggingface yet. This takes somebody to do the integration, and time to work with the people who run the hub. Maybe the team is looking for more community-oriented efforts to develop. Last time EleutherAI released a free service for people on low end systems to play with their model. I made a bot that automated this at high frequency on discord, by inspecting their javascript. Now, the service is for-pay, but the cost is microcents. https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox https://blog.eleuther.ai/announcing-20b/ February, 2022 - links removed from plaintext Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave. As of February 9, 2022, GPT-NeoX-20B checkpoints are available for download from The Eye under Apache 2.0. More in-depth information on GPT-NeoX-20B can be found in our preliminary technical report. Looking for a demo? Try GPT-NeoX-20B via CoreWeave and Anlatan’s new inference service, GooseAI! After a year-long odyssey through months of chip shortage-induced shipping delays, technical trials and tribulations, and aggressively boring debugging, we are happy to finally announce EleutherAI’s latest open-source language model: GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained using our GPT-NeoX framework on GPUs generously provided by our friends at CoreWeave. GPT-NeoX-20B is, to our knowledge, the largest publicly accessible pretrained general-purpose autoregressive language model, and we expect it to perform well on many tasks. We hope that the increased accessibility of models of this size will aid in research towards the safe use of AI systems, and encourage anyone interested in working in this direction to reach out to us. As a thank you to our generous compute donors, we are delaying the public downloadable release of the model by 7 days. On February 9, 2022, the full model weights will be downloadable for free under a permissive Apache 2.0 license from The Eye. There will be a #20b channel set up in our Discord for discussions of this model. Please note that much like our other language models and codebases, GPT-NeoX and GPT-NeoX-20B are very much research artifacts and we do not recommend deploying either in a production setting without careful consideration. In particular, we strongly encourage those looking to use GPT-NeoX-20B to read the paper and datasheet on our training data. There are still bugs to be ironed out and many inefficiencies that could be addressed—but hey, we do this in our free time, give us a break lol Task Category Babbage Curie GPT-J-6B FairSeq-13B GPT-NeoX-20B DaVinci LAMBADA Sentence Completion 62.49% 69.51% 68.29% 70.95% 71.98% 75.16% ANLI R1 Natural Language Inference 32.40% 32.80% 32.40% 34.00% 33.50% 36.30% ANLI R2 Natural Language Inference 30.90% 33.50% 34.00% 33.00% 34.40% 37.00% ANLI R3 Natural Language Inference 33.75% 35.50% 35.50% 34.75% 35.75% 36.83% WSC Coreference Resolution 54.54% 49.54% 49.54% 55.44% 49.04% 59.18% WinoGrande Coreference Resolution 59.51% 64.56% 64.01% 67.40% 65.27% 69.93% HellaSwag Sentence Completion 40.38% 54.81% 36.53% 57.69% 53.61% 63.46% Total 39.40% 42.57% 40.28% 44.67% 43.31% 48.40% Accuracy on standard language modeling tasks. Subject Group Babbage Curie GPT-J-6B FairSeq-13B GPT-NeoX-20B DaVinci Humanities 27.01% 26.48% 28.07% 27.27% 28.70% 32.30% Social Science 27.94% 29.24% 28.73% 27.94% 31.63% 35.87% STEM 25.83% 24.25% 25.71% 24.63% 26.27% 28.60% Other 26.86% 28.84% 27.95% 27.33% 29.83% 36.85% Total 26.78% 26.90% 27.38% 26.53% 28.77% 32.86% Zero-shot accuracy of factual knowledge by subject group, as measured by the HendrycksTest evaluation.

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